Name
Abstract | ||
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Network virtualization allows one to build dynamic distributed systems in which resources can be dynamically allocated at locations where they are most useful. In order to fully exploit the benefits of this new technology, protocols need to be devised which react efficiently to changes in the demand. This paper argues that the field of online algorithms and competitive analysis provides useful tools to deal with and reason about the uncertainty in the request dynamics, and to design algorithms with provable performance guarantees. As a case study, we describe a system (e.g., a gaming application) where network virtualization is used to support thin client applications for mobile devices to improve their Quality-of-Service (QoS). By decoupling the service from the underlying resource infrastructure, it can be migrated closer to the current client locations while taking into account migration cost. This paper identifies the major cost factors in such a system, and formalizes the corresponding optimization problem. Both randomized and deterministic, gravity center based online algorithms are presented which achieve a good tradeoff between improved QoS and migration cost in the worst-case, both for service migration within an infrastructure provider as well as for networks supporting cross-provider migration. We report on our simulation results and also present an explicit construction of an optimal offline algorithm which can be used, e.g., to evaluate the competitive ratio empirically. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1145/2124436.2124449 | principles systems and applications of ip telecommunications |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
account migration cost,service migration,virtual network,inter provider service migration,competitive analysis,migration cost,competitive ratio empirically,current client location,online algorithm,major cost factor,network virtualization,cross-provider migration,online strategy,vanet,p2p | Online algorithm,Computer science,Quality of service,Computer network,Exploit,Thin client,Factor cost,Network virtualization,Vehicular ad hoc network,Competitive analysis,Distributed computing | Journal |
Volume | Citations | PageRank |
abs/1103.0966 | 17 | 0.85 |
References | Authors | |
26 | 5 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dushyant Arora | 1 | 67 | 3.45 |
| Marcin Bienkowski | 2 | 254 | 27.18 |
| Anja Feldmann | 3 | 4935 | 596.02 |
| Gregor Schaffrath | 4 | 159 | 10.22 |
| Stefan Schmid | 5 | 769 | 79.85 |